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Rh are not shorter in duration. When the muscles do respond they contract as usual, perhaps not to so great an extent, but then they relax slowly, and we wearily drag our limbs onwards. I do not say that fatigue is entirely in the muscles. They communicate with headquarters and they telegraph their wearied condition to the executive, and the executive also becomes tired, partly by receiving these messages from the muscles, and partly by having to stimulate the flagging muscles to a much greater extent than when they are fresh and active. Using the whip and spur may weary the rider while they stimulate the steed.

There is one other peculiarity of the muscle, considered as a machine, that distinguishes it, to some extent at least, from all other machines. You are all aware that in a great factory containing complicated machinery it does not pay to allow the machinery to stand still, even suppose it may be working at a daily loss to the manufacturer. It may so happen, and unfortunately it not unfrequently happens, that bad trade compels a manufacturer to produce his articles at a loss, and you might think